P7216

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ID Number

P7216

Item Name

Image

Title

Storm Drain Construction / Construction d'un collecteur d'eaux pluviales

Title (Fre)

Construction d'un collecteur d'eaux pluviales

Date

1916/12/04

Description

Black and white photograph looking North from 5th Street showing railroad for storm drain construction; a set of railroad tracks runs vertically through the centre of the photograph; on the left side of the tracks there is a flat section of land scattered with tree stumps, behind which are numerous tall, bare trees; four men are standing on the railroad tracks; the man closest to the foreground of the photograph is holding a shovel and the man behind him is smoking a pipe; a number of other men, some holding shovels and some shovelling, are standing on the right of the railroad tracks; behind them are a few trees and a steep embankment; hand printed in the bottom left corner of the photo is: "Looking North from 5th St. Showing Railroad for Storm Drain Construction. Dec 4, 1916."

History

The Canadian Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Company, purchased an 1800 acre site around 1917 and an elaborate town was planned to house workers at the plant. Roads were built and fire hydrants installed before the town itself was started and a four-lane divided highway separated the plant site from the town and connected it to Windsor, four kilometres away. The recession of the 1920s led the company to reassess the Canadian plant. Some mills were erected but the residential areas were never started. The depression of the 1930s finally killed the project, although the buildings which had been erected were used for war work in the 1940s. The town, which had been incorporated in 1913, remained a municipality although its population never exceded 100. It was annexed by Windsor in 1966, by which time natural regeneration had created a forest on the town site. Part of the site is now Windsor's nature park and the land planned for the Carnegie steel plant was developed for industry and is now known as the Morton Industrial Park. The residential area is now used by a harness racing complex, a new subdivision and the nature park.

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Ojibway

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

5th St. / Rue 5e

Canadian Steel Corporation Ltd. / Société canadienne de l'acier Canadian Steel ltd.

City planning / Planification urbaine

Men / Hommes

Ojibway (Ont.)

Progress photographs / Photographies Progress

Railroad employees / Employés du chemin de fer

Railroad tracks / Voie ferrée

Sewerage / Réseau d'égouts

Shovels / Pelles

Tree stumps / souche d'arbre

Trees / Arbres